According to cabinet's report, the government achieved 40 of its 200 goals set out in the mandate, with progress on 153 others and the remaining seven in the planning stage.

But regular MLAs, assembled as the priorities and planning committee, judged progress on each task with grades of Good, Satisfactory, Poor and Fail.

The committee rated cabinet's performance as "Poor" on 49 tasks and gave it a "Fail" grade on three.

Legislative 'halftime'

Yellowknife MLA Kieron Testart, who represents the riding of Kam Lake, described the midterm review as "halftime" for the 18th legislative assembly, two years into its four-year term.

Testart said three cabinet ministers are on the hot seat: Justice Minister Louis Sebert, who is also minister for public engagement and transparency; Health and Social Services Minister Glen Abernethy; and Minister of Education, Culture and Employment Alfred Moses.

"Mental health continues to be on the minds of many Northerners — the 'A New Day Program' and how it rolled out, it was controversial … and the changes to Aurora College and the roll out of junior kindergarten, those are issues we can all see," Testart said.